A day after another stunning come-from-behind win and the press is already at a loss to find appropriate adjectives to describe the play of Andrew Luck.

This time Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star [1]invented a new, and undeniably appropriate, word to describe Luck’s play in the Colts 35-33 thriller[2]: Peyton-esque.

It ought to be football blasphemy to compare a 23-year-old rookie to a four-time MVP and one of the five best quarterbacks to ever play the game, but after what Luck pulled off in Detroit[3], the word is strangely appropriate.

Consider this from Chase Stuart[4] of Football Perspective and the New York Times:

The fact is that Luck’s efforts in the final three minutes were so improbable, so unlike what we’ve seen from any normal rookie that inventing superlatives that invoke the name of Manning are all we have left.

Rookies have won big games before. They’ve lead comebacks before. They’ve taken teams to the playoffs before.

What no rookie has ever done is carry a team on his back all the way to the postseason the way Luck has. Consider that he led his game-winning drives on an offense built around a collection of cast-offs on the offensive line and a rookie running back, two rookie tight ends and two rookie receivers.